The adoption volunteers anxiously talk about couples walking away with children from private nursing homes or government hospitals, where unwed mothers have delivered. The couple had to wait for 16 months for Pallabi’s birth certificate It is not biology that makes a family, but relationship,” says the lady, whose Penguin Guide to Adoption in India is a ready reckoner on the subject.Ī long process: Shankar Debnath, (Texas Instruments) and Sudipta, (Aricent Tech.) with Pallabi. “Adopting a child is worth the experience. The most important ingredient, according to her, is relationship. At present, she heads ACA-the umbrella organisation for all adoptions in Karnataka. So what explains the sudden rush for adoption, especially among the IT professionals? “Increased awareness primarily and rising income levels,” explains Dr Lobo, who is the immediate past chairperson of Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA), a Government of India entity.
She shares her birthday, October 20, with her parents’ wedding anniversary. Rachitha is the reason for double celebration for Ranjini, 34, and Ravi Shankar, 39, who is employed with Aztec Software.
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Pallabi spends most of her time with her grandparents as both the parents are busy software engineers- Shankar works for Texas Instruments and Sudipta for Aricent Technologies. But it is a great feeling for me to be her mother,” says Sudipta in a voice tinged with emotion. If not me, my Pallabi would have got any other mother. When they visited an adoption centre in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, they found a three-month-old kid, already named Pallabi. Shankar Debnath, 33, and Sudipta, 32, had named their daughter Pallabi much before she landed in their home in January this year.
Some adoption experiences are laced with happy coincidences as is the case with two tiny girls Pallabi and Rachitha-both two years old. Says Dinesh, who works for Reliance Communications: “After seeing Maanasi, we have decided to have our second child also through adoption.” Krupalini, who’s with Cisco Systems, concurs as their two-year-old playfully hovers around. Dinesh, 33, and Krupalini, 34, the experience of adopting Maanasi has been so emotionally rewarding that the couple has altogether abandoned their plans to have a biological child. Trishia, the eldest among her adopted children, is married to AOL engineer Sandeep Milar and lives in Washington, D.C.įor M. All her adopted children are daughters- the youngest being seven years. She is a proud mother of six children- three biological and three adopted. Dr Lobo, perhaps, is among the first to set off this trend. These days even those who already have children or can become biological parents, are increasingly seeking adoption. The trend, interestingly, is a far cry from the days when childless couples preferred kids from within their family circle-children of siblings or of close relatives. On how these agencies get these children for adoption, Angadi says: “They are either from unwed mothers, or abandoned.” These children are kept in childcare centres till they are legally given for adoption. At Mathruchhaya itself, 30-odd couples are waiting, while Adoption Coordinating Agency-Karnataka (ACA-Karnataka) has a long waitlist of 95. This, however, is not the norm as the aim is to find the best family-childless or otherwise- for a particular child. That’s hardly surprisingly for a city of 1,000-plus IT and BPO companies with over 300,000 professionals, translating to 5 per cent of the city’s population. The largest chunk of these wannabe parents is IT professionals, followed distantly by doctors. The number of aspiring couples is even higher some of them have failed to register themselves as they do not meet some eligibility criteria or the other. While 68 adoptions took place in Bangalore during the last 10 months, about 10 times that number of couples-many in their mid-30s-are waiting patiently at the doors of adoption agencies. Wannabe parents, especially IT professionals, are embracing adoption with unmatched zeal. Dr Lobo had it fairly easy, with children aplenty and adopters few.Ĭall it a new phenomenon from the IT capital of India. In the next 20 years, she adopted two more daughters, Lee and Nisha. When Dr Aloma Lobo, a paediatrician in Bangalore, decided to adopt her first daughter 28 years ago, it took her no time to bring Trishia home.
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